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Ethnology under K. V. Pavlovne, C. Phil. S., and
Archaelogy under Dr. K. S. Ivanovna, D. Hist. S.
In 1991, there were a total of 90 scientists and technicians working in the institute, of
whom five held the doctorate and 42 held candidate degrees. From 1945 to 1991,
researchers in this institute published some 467 bibliographic items--though a
number of these were article rather than monograph length. Russian scientists often
work as a group of writers rather than as individuals. The institute manuscript
holdings consist of Russian folklore of some 182 collection of some 306,000
items, and national folklore or Karelians, Veps and Ingermanlanders with 156
collections containing more than 21,000 items. Dr. Iurii A. Savvateev, D. Hist. S.
is Director of the institute. (Information provided in a letter from S. V.
Varkhatova, C. Hist. S., dated November 11, 1991.)
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2. Economics Research Institute in Petrozavodsk. Began as a research group in
1946 under A. V. Ivanov who was Head of the economics sector of the Karelian-
Finnish Scientific Research Base of the AN SSSR. Ivanov headed the research
group from 1946 to 1953 when P. A. Vasil’ev (1953-57) headed it. In 1948, it was
renamed the economic sector and in 1951, the Department of Economics of the
Karelian Subdivision of the AN SSSR. In 1958, this sector was given independent
Department status and put under the direction of P. A. Ukhanov (1958-1972).
From 1973 to 1974, it was under A. M. Pravdin, from 1974 to 1976 under A. I.
Bogachiov, from 1976 to 1982 under A. S. Revaikin and from 1983 to 1987 under
Sh. Sh. Baibusinov. Since 1987 it has been under Sergei M. Iaskunov, C. Econ.
S., and subordinate to the Karelian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Scientists of this Department study the economic potential of the North, focusing
particularly upon the forestry industry. The staff numbers 38 researchers of whom
one holds the doctorate and 19 the candidate degree.
Structure of the Department: the Department-Institute is made up of seven
departments:
integrated economic problems of production;
economic problems of management and economic mechanism;
economic problems of social infrastructure;
economic problems of production infrastructure;
economic-technological problems of machine-building and
metallurgy; economics of the agro-industrial complex, and
economics of the forestry complex.
There is also an independent group on the economics of science. Its scientists also study
labor productivity. Scientists in this institute produced some 81 published studies
from 1945 to 1985. Other members of this Department include: Sh. Sh.
Baybusinov, A. M. Savin, I. P. Pokrovskaia (aya), S. N. Nokelaynen, V. N.
Bakunovich, and S. M. Yakunov. (See: Ruble, Vol. I., p. 124.)
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3. Forestry Institute in Petrozavodsk. Work in forestry began in the 1930s in the
region as a result of a Russian scientific expedition led by Iurii D. Tsizerlinga and
N. I. Kuznetsova. Another AN SSSR expedition was led by S. N. Nedrigailova
and S. P. Uskova. Forestry was established in 1949 as a Department, gaining
institute status in 1957. Institute scientists research the impact of nitric fertilizers on
conifers. The Forestry Laboratory was established in 1948. Forestry scientists
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